Poaching and surroundings: Reggio Emilia, surprised and denounced by the Forestry for hunting turtledoves from the eastern collar near Cadelbosco.
Throughout Emilia-Romagna, it is the pre-opening day of the hunting, an anticipation limited to some forms of hunting activities relating to a few species of birds, compared to the actual general opening scheduled for Sunday 20 September.
The staff of the Provincial Police was however engaged in the control of the few hunters present in the area, especially concentrated in the vicinity of sunflower fields that attract wild turtledoves, queen species among those target of this hunting event. The provincial staff were also joined by various ecological and voluntary hunting guards.
And it is thanks to the report of a patrol of voluntary ecological guards of the Reggio Emilia group that a hunter disrespectful of the rules was identified in Argine di Cadelbosco Sopra. The man, a 42-year-old from Modena, was in fact hunting with a rifle in a camouflage shed, using calls for turtledoves.
In the surroundings of the hut, however, in addition to some wild turtledoves whose killing is indeed lawful, the agents, after meticulous research, however, discovered among the vegetation also the carcasses of eastern collared doves, a non-huntable species, and of wood pigeons. , especially for which the hunt will only open from the third Sunday of September. The agents of the Provincial Police then proceeded to seize the birds, the rifle and the ammunition and will report the Modenese hunter to the judicial authority.
(September 4, 2015)
Source: GazzettadiReggio